Mellon Seminar: Stephanie Boddie & Amy Hillier

Stephanie Boddie, MSW, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Church and community Ministries at Baylor University, with appointments in their Garland School of Social Work and Truett Seminary. Amy Hillier, MSW, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. The two were graduate school classmates at Penn and co-direct a public history project called The Ward: Race and Class in Du Bois’ Seventh Ward. The project aims to teach people about the great civil rights leader and scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois, and his 1899 book, The Philadelphia Negro through research, neighborhood walking tours, a documentary, interactive mapping, a board game, and oral histories. During this presentation, they will describe recent efforts to catalog and extend their project scope. They will demonstrate some of the current content and invite participants to help workshop ideas for their new website and the next phase of this 20-year-old project.